Following my Heart in lieu of mainstream society

Rambling and Thanking God For My Tribe

This year in November, around Thanksgiving to be exact, will mark 3 years that we have been a part of Heaven’s Invasion. I am absolutely floored when I sit and consider all that God has done in such a short period of time.

I remember the first time I went. Heaven’s Invasion was having a Thanksgiving potluck before service, and Gary Fishman was to be there from the Bronx. He’d invited me and asked me to speak about something.

I remember my oldest and I going and being excited. We sat at a table with Scott whose enormous frame, standing at well over 6 feet, did nothing at all to deter us from striking up conversation and feeling totally comfortable with him.

I remember hearing others share a bit, and then, when it was my turn, Russ, who I didn’t know at the time, looked at me and said my name and asked me to come up. His familiarity with my name alone shocked me, as I’d expected him to have to ask Gary for my name.

I remember the service and worship just felt like home. In that moment, I knew that this was where I belonged, although I was attending another church Sunday mornings. I would continue to attend Heaven’s Invasion, Sunday nights until the Lord directed me further.

Eventually, the Lord led me to leave the church I attended in the mornings and planted me firmly at Heaven’s Invasion. Through Heaven’s Invasion, I gained more family, through the different events held by Kingdom Training Institute, Calvary Tabernacle and The Sanctuary Fellowship in the Bronx.

I have learned the hard way, as most have, that I needed to be very discerning about who I allowed in, how deeply I allowed people in and who I could and couldn’t share things with. I learned to still be free to be me, but to keep my eyes open.

Now, I am learning to open up in an environment with people where I am safe. I remember meeting my Evelin. I felt like I had known her all my life, and, after being around her a second time, I told her that she was going to be my friend. I just knew it. After being hurt so much in the past, because of my own poor choices, I felt I’d outgrown the term “best friends”, but she truly is one of my very best friends. I can readily admit that now. Also, we have a little core group now and I can confidently add that term to JuLissa and Lisandra as well. In truth, what we have is far deeper than the term that has a bit of a kiddie feel to it. These women mean everything to me. These are a few of the women, with whom I feel no walls. Thankfully, there are many others as well.

To be surrounded on so many fronts with such love and support seems like I’m cheating at times. And the changes!! I never in a million years imagined I’d be doing much of anything I am doing now. I am regularly prophesying over people where ever I am. This includes phone calls I have to make to businesses for home repairs and services. I love it when I’m asked at the end of a call with Verizon or some other company if I have any other questions or comments. That’s oftentimes my cue to unleash God’s love on the unsuspecting representative. I can’t tell you how many times, after prophesying over a representative from one company or another, how they open up, sometimes crying, and start to share a bit of their lives with me. What an honor!!

As I look back, in just shy of 2 years, I have gained a solid foundation in the prophetic, became a worship leader, youth leader and an ordained minister to boot! When connected with the right people, God can do some crazy things, crazy fast!! I feel both, new and different, and completely comfortable and at home with my life as it has become, and it’s still changing! There’s so much more to come! God has said it and I just feel it!

I pray that you are connected to the ones God would have you connected with. This is what life is supposed to be like in His Kingdom-family, fellowship, discipleship, love. I so enjoy doing life with my core group. I pray that you have this too!